Steve Dischiavi listens during an interview with retired police officer Ken Afienko on Travel Channel’s ‘The Dead Files’
Travel Channel’s popular paranormal series The Dead Files will return for season 15 on Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 9pm Et/Pt. The new season will include a big change in the lineup, as medium Amy Allan will be saying goodbye to the series with the episode set to air on June 29.
Psychic medium Cindy Kaza will be taking over and assisting former NYPD homicide detective Steve Dischiavi as he investigates paranormal activities.
Per Travel Channel: “This season marks a significant change as it bids a bittersweet farewell to Amy Allan, a dedicated partner to Dischiavi for over 200 episodes. As a gifted physical medium, Allan has been a fundamental part of the team since the show’s inception in 2011. Helping clients reinstate order to their lives by making peace with the dead, she...
Travel Channel’s popular paranormal series The Dead Files will return for season 15 on Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 9pm Et/Pt. The new season will include a big change in the lineup, as medium Amy Allan will be saying goodbye to the series with the episode set to air on June 29.
Psychic medium Cindy Kaza will be taking over and assisting former NYPD homicide detective Steve Dischiavi as he investigates paranormal activities.
Per Travel Channel: “This season marks a significant change as it bids a bittersweet farewell to Amy Allan, a dedicated partner to Dischiavi for over 200 episodes. As a gifted physical medium, Allan has been a fundamental part of the team since the show’s inception in 2011. Helping clients reinstate order to their lives by making peace with the dead, she...
- 4/22/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Announced via press release, “Ghostober,” the highly successful, multiplatform event is back with more than 55 hours of spine-tingling new series/specials and returning shows for the Halloween season, including hair-raising ghost hunts, tales of the supernatural and show-stopping pumpkin carvings from Travel Channel, Food Network and discovery+.
Paranormal superstar Zak Bagans, filmmaker Eli Roth, Food Network star Sunny Anderson, paranormal investigator Jack Osbourne and actor/comedian John Henson are just a few of the fan-favorite celebrities who will participate in this year’s event.
“Fans have come to view ‘Ghostober’ as the unofficial start of the holiday season, and with our 25+ U.S. networks, we can promote all of its in-demand content to more than 35 of cable’s nightly primetime audience,” said Kathleen Finch, chairman and chief content officer, U.S. Networks Group at Warner Bros. Discovery. “’Ghostober’ is a proven success with record levels of engagement across social media,...
Paranormal superstar Zak Bagans, filmmaker Eli Roth, Food Network star Sunny Anderson, paranormal investigator Jack Osbourne and actor/comedian John Henson are just a few of the fan-favorite celebrities who will participate in this year’s event.
“Fans have come to view ‘Ghostober’ as the unofficial start of the holiday season, and with our 25+ U.S. networks, we can promote all of its in-demand content to more than 35 of cable’s nightly primetime audience,” said Kathleen Finch, chairman and chief content officer, U.S. Networks Group at Warner Bros. Discovery. “’Ghostober’ is a proven success with record levels of engagement across social media,...
- 8/25/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
“Ghostober,” the multi-platform spooky television event, is returning this year with more than 55 hours of new series, specials and returning shows for the Halloween season.
The programming for the event includes ghost hunts, supernatural tales and pumpkin carvings from Travel Channel, Food Network and Discovery+. “Ghostober” will feature programming starring the likes of Zak Bagans, Eli Roth, Sunny Anderson, John Henson and paranormal investigator Jack Osbourne.
“Fans have come to view ‘Ghostober’ as the unofficial start of the holiday season and with our 25+ US networks, we can promote all of its in-demand content to more than 35 of cable’s nightly primetime audience,” Kathleen Finch, chairman and chief content officer of US Networks Group at Warner Bros. Discovery, said. “Ghostober is a proven success with record levels of engagement across social media and this year we’ve increased the number of hours across our platforms to super-serve the audience. We are officially the home of Halloween.
The programming for the event includes ghost hunts, supernatural tales and pumpkin carvings from Travel Channel, Food Network and Discovery+. “Ghostober” will feature programming starring the likes of Zak Bagans, Eli Roth, Sunny Anderson, John Henson and paranormal investigator Jack Osbourne.
“Fans have come to view ‘Ghostober’ as the unofficial start of the holiday season and with our 25+ US networks, we can promote all of its in-demand content to more than 35 of cable’s nightly primetime audience,” Kathleen Finch, chairman and chief content officer of US Networks Group at Warner Bros. Discovery, said. “Ghostober is a proven success with record levels of engagement across social media and this year we’ve increased the number of hours across our platforms to super-serve the audience. We are officially the home of Halloween.
- 8/24/2022
- by Carson Burton
- Variety Film + TV
The latest Scream installment successfully revived the black comedy slasher franchise, became a critical and commercial hit, and honored director Wes Craven’s legacy of the previous four films. But it also calls to mind the much darker inspiration behind screenwriter Kevin Williamson’s script: The Gainesville Ripper.
In August 1990, Danny Rolling brutally murdered five college students in Gainesville, Florida — as well as three people in Shreveport, Louisiana in November 1989 — and was sentenced to death in 1994 before being executed in 2006.
According to pop culture lore, Williamson was watching a television program about the murders while housesitting alone. He realized a window was open in the home, became creeped out, and phoned a friend as he investigated the house whilst carrying a butcher knife. The result was the 1996 film that introduced the world to Ghostface.
But in the latest discovery+ “Shock Doc,” Scream: The True Story, available now on the streaming platform,...
In August 1990, Danny Rolling brutally murdered five college students in Gainesville, Florida — as well as three people in Shreveport, Louisiana in November 1989 — and was sentenced to death in 1994 before being executed in 2006.
According to pop culture lore, Williamson was watching a television program about the murders while housesitting alone. He realized a window was open in the home, became creeped out, and phoned a friend as he investigated the house whilst carrying a butcher knife. The result was the 1996 film that introduced the world to Ghostface.
But in the latest discovery+ “Shock Doc,” Scream: The True Story, available now on the streaming platform,...
- 1/26/2022
- by Aaron Sagers
- Den of Geek
Ed Gein is watching. The most influential figure in slasher horror may be long dead, but his eyes are upon us. So are his mother’s. The pair cast a long shadow over the American murder landscape, and you can almost feel them breathing down your neck in discovery+’s new Shock Docs special. Ed Gein: The Real Psycho is a surprisingly fun whistle past a graveyard. Documentary film producer and paranormal investigator Steve Shippy heard the infamous proto-serial killer is still haunting the town he terrorized in life, and invites psychic medium Cindy Kaza to probe the inner darkness.
Shippy can barely contain his excitement, and he makes it quite contagious. He truly enjoys exploring Gein’s hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Every room in every building has a story to tell, though he sometimes seems anxious to get out of the woods. Kaza is mesmerizing as she slips into undead energies,...
Shippy can barely contain his excitement, and he makes it quite contagious. He truly enjoys exploring Gein’s hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Every room in every building has a story to tell, though he sometimes seems anxious to get out of the woods. Kaza is mesmerizing as she slips into undead energies,...
- 4/7/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
“What is this that stands before me,” Ozzy Osbourne asked on the song “Black Sabbath” by his band Black Sabbath. “Figure in black which points at me. Turn ’round quick and start to run. Find out I’m the chosen one.” Yes, The Prince of Darkness himself was picked to appear on Travel Channel’s two-hour special, The Osbournes: Night of Terror. This will be the first time Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne join their offspring Jack and Kelly Osbourne on their first-ever paranormal investigation together. The Osbournes: Night of Terror premieres Friday, Oct. 30 at 9 p.m. The event is part of Travel Channel’s third annual “Ghostober” programming event.
“Halloween is inching closer, and it wouldn’t be a spooky celebration without an appearance from the ‘First Family of Darkness’ themselves,” reads the press statement. “Get ready for a family fright night like no other.” The Osbournes will go inside the Heritage Square Museum,...
“Halloween is inching closer, and it wouldn’t be a spooky celebration without an appearance from the ‘First Family of Darkness’ themselves,” reads the press statement. “Get ready for a family fright night like no other.” The Osbournes will go inside the Heritage Square Museum,...
- 10/17/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The Holzer Files season 2 went through reams of files to choose all-new investigations into Hans Holzer’s paranormal mysteries. The investigative series launches with a special Halloween week premiere on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 11 p.m. Et.
The team, led by investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza, equipment technician Shane Pittman and researcher Gabe Roth, investigates true hauntings from the recently discovered case files of America’s first ghost hunter, Dr. Hans Holzer.
“We knew when we greenlit The Holzer Files, we had something special on our hands, but we didn’t realize just how much of a paranormal pandora’s box we’d opened until we started filming,” Travel Channel general manager Matthew Butler said in a statement. “Hans was a prolific chronicler of hundreds of ghost hunts, preserving everything from photographs, case notes, letters, film footage and chilling audio recordings from his interview subjects and trance mediums. Most...
The team, led by investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza, equipment technician Shane Pittman and researcher Gabe Roth, investigates true hauntings from the recently discovered case files of America’s first ghost hunter, Dr. Hans Holzer.
“We knew when we greenlit The Holzer Files, we had something special on our hands, but we didn’t realize just how much of a paranormal pandora’s box we’d opened until we started filming,” Travel Channel general manager Matthew Butler said in a statement. “Hans was a prolific chronicler of hundreds of ghost hunts, preserving everything from photographs, case notes, letters, film footage and chilling audio recordings from his interview subjects and trance mediums. Most...
- 10/10/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Aaron Sagers Jan 23, 2020
The Holzer Files season 2 will arrive on Travel Channel in 2020.
The Holzer Files will remain open. Travel Channel announced today that its ghosthunting show has been renewed for a second season. The Holzer Files season 2 will premiere in late 2020.
The unscripted paranormal series re-examines the investigations of famed ghost hunter Hans Holzer through the lens of popular radio show host and investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza, equipment expert Shane Pittman, and researcher Gabe Roth – with guidance by Holzer’s own daughter, Alexandra Holzer.
The announcement comes days ahead of Holzer’s 100th birthday. Before his death in 2009 at age 89, Holzer had authored more than 120 books on the paranormal, extraterrestrial life, witchcraft, and more. During a four-decade-long career, which famously included his involvment in the “Amityville Horror” house case in 1977, Holzer also taught parapsychology at the New York Institute of Technology, and worked as a consultant...
The Holzer Files season 2 will arrive on Travel Channel in 2020.
The Holzer Files will remain open. Travel Channel announced today that its ghosthunting show has been renewed for a second season. The Holzer Files season 2 will premiere in late 2020.
The unscripted paranormal series re-examines the investigations of famed ghost hunter Hans Holzer through the lens of popular radio show host and investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza, equipment expert Shane Pittman, and researcher Gabe Roth – with guidance by Holzer’s own daughter, Alexandra Holzer.
The announcement comes days ahead of Holzer’s 100th birthday. Before his death in 2009 at age 89, Holzer had authored more than 120 books on the paranormal, extraterrestrial life, witchcraft, and more. During a four-decade-long career, which famously included his involvment in the “Amityville Horror” house case in 1977, Holzer also taught parapsychology at the New York Institute of Technology, and worked as a consultant...
- 1/23/2020
- Den of Geek
Cindy Kaza is a psychic medium who has become extremely popular since appearing in two reality television series. She appears as herself in the series “Portals to Hell” and “The Holzer Files,” both of which aired in 2019. She is an interesting celebrity personality who has some unique talents. We were interested in knowing more about her history and her career so we checked into her biography and profile. Here are 10 things that you didn’t know about Cindy Kaza that you probably didn’t know and might find as interesting as we do. 1. She is an evidential medium Cindy
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- 12/10/2019
- by Dana Hanson-Firestone
- TVovermind.com
Parapsychologist Dr. Hans Holzer changed the face of paranormal research more than a half-century ago, and in Travel Channel’s latest mystical show, “The Holzer Files,” his daughter Alexandra Holzer proudly carries on his legacy by revisiting his groundbreaking – and frequently creepy — work.
On “The Holzer Files,” true hauntings dating back to the 1950s that were documented in letters, photographs and super-chilling audio and visual recordings by America’s first ghost hunter, Hans Holzer, are being reopened and explored by a dedicated paranormal team led by investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza, equipment tech Shane Pittman and Holzer’s daughter, Alexandra.
“I grew up in that environment, and not just with Dad, but with Mother,” Alexandra Holzer said, adding that her mom was a Russian countess. “They both had that background in different areas. And it’s fascinating. So I really can’t get away from it.”
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On “The Holzer Files,” true hauntings dating back to the 1950s that were documented in letters, photographs and super-chilling audio and visual recordings by America’s first ghost hunter, Hans Holzer, are being reopened and explored by a dedicated paranormal team led by investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza, equipment tech Shane Pittman and Holzer’s daughter, Alexandra.
“I grew up in that environment, and not just with Dad, but with Mother,” Alexandra Holzer said, adding that her mom was a Russian countess. “They both had that background in different areas. And it’s fascinating. So I really can’t get away from it.”
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- 11/7/2019
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
Aaron Sagers Oct 23, 2019
We give you an exclusive look of The Holzer Files going down to Texas to study a case of possible demonic possession.
For more than a decade, Dave Schrader has explored and reported on paranormal phenomena through his radio shows Darkness Radio and Beyond the Darkness, as a fill-in host for Coast to Coast Am, and as a TV personality on Travel Channel’s Paranormal Challenge and Ghost Adventures.
Now with his new show The Holzer Files on Travel, Schrader reopens the cases of Hans Holzer, the so-called “father of the paranormal,” America’s first ghost hunter, and inspiration for Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis’ Ghostbusters. Aided by Holzer’s daughter Alexandra Holzer-Lawson, psychic-medium Cindy Kaza, and equipment tech Shane Pittman, Schrader digs into documents and case files that date back to the 1950s.
In the newest episode, “The Devil in Texas,” Schrader reveals how one of...
We give you an exclusive look of The Holzer Files going down to Texas to study a case of possible demonic possession.
For more than a decade, Dave Schrader has explored and reported on paranormal phenomena through his radio shows Darkness Radio and Beyond the Darkness, as a fill-in host for Coast to Coast Am, and as a TV personality on Travel Channel’s Paranormal Challenge and Ghost Adventures.
Now with his new show The Holzer Files on Travel, Schrader reopens the cases of Hans Holzer, the so-called “father of the paranormal,” America’s first ghost hunter, and inspiration for Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis’ Ghostbusters. Aided by Holzer’s daughter Alexandra Holzer-Lawson, psychic-medium Cindy Kaza, and equipment tech Shane Pittman, Schrader digs into documents and case files that date back to the 1950s.
In the newest episode, “The Devil in Texas,” Schrader reveals how one of...
- 10/23/2019
- Den of Geek
There’s nothing like hunting for the dead on a show that is live — and that takes us to one of the country’s most legendary spooky cities — Salem, Massachusetts — on the Travel Channel’s “Haunted Salem: Live,” a four-hour paranormal lover’s dream stakeout on Oct. 4.
Led by a team of the network’s biggest paranormal experts — Katrina Weidman and Jack Osbourne (“Portals to Hell”), Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and Chip Coffey (“Kindred Spirits”), Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey (“Ghost Brothers: Haunted Houseguests”), Dave Schrader and Cindy Kaza (“The Holzer Files”) — the immersive event will investigate the ghostly activity at three historic locations tied to the infamous Salem Witch trials.
And the coolest part? Through an on-location, live video stream, fans can monitor the activity on Travel Channel’s Facebook live feed and comment and tell the investigators, “Look out behind you!” and “Uhhhh… did you hear that?...
Led by a team of the network’s biggest paranormal experts — Katrina Weidman and Jack Osbourne (“Portals to Hell”), Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and Chip Coffey (“Kindred Spirits”), Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey (“Ghost Brothers: Haunted Houseguests”), Dave Schrader and Cindy Kaza (“The Holzer Files”) — the immersive event will investigate the ghostly activity at three historic locations tied to the infamous Salem Witch trials.
And the coolest part? Through an on-location, live video stream, fans can monitor the activity on Travel Channel’s Facebook live feed and comment and tell the investigators, “Look out behind you!” and “Uhhhh… did you hear that?...
- 10/4/2019
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
Hot Topic recently revealed exclusive apparel for It: Chapter Two! Check them out before Pennywise (and the now grown-up members of the Losers' Club) return on theater screens on September 6th! Also: Travel Channel's "Ghostober" lineup revealed and a Q&a with Two Sentence Horror Stories cinematographer Guy Pooles.
Hot Topic's Exclusive It: Chapter Two Apparel Revealed: Check out the new It Chapter Two apparel that is exclusive only to Hot Topic. You can find Pennywise as well as poor Georgie's boa on t-shirts, hoodies, backpacks, clutches, hosiery, and more.
For more information, visit Hot Topic's website here.
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Travel Channel's Ghostober Programming Details: "Get ready to scream your way through October, as Travel Channel gets up close with the paranormal during its annual “Ghostober” programming event. Halloween reigns all month long as 31 days of fright-filled premieres take viewers on a spine-chilling adventure to the other side – where tales of ghosts,...
Hot Topic's Exclusive It: Chapter Two Apparel Revealed: Check out the new It Chapter Two apparel that is exclusive only to Hot Topic. You can find Pennywise as well as poor Georgie's boa on t-shirts, hoodies, backpacks, clutches, hosiery, and more.
For more information, visit Hot Topic's website here.
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Travel Channel's Ghostober Programming Details: "Get ready to scream your way through October, as Travel Channel gets up close with the paranormal during its annual “Ghostober” programming event. Halloween reigns all month long as 31 days of fright-filled premieres take viewers on a spine-chilling adventure to the other side – where tales of ghosts,...
- 8/26/2019
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
With summer winding down, Travel Channel is already look towards Halloween, unveiling the lineup for the network’s annual “Ghostober” programming month.
This year’s month-long event features a four-hour live ghost investigation in Salem, Massachusetts (home of the Salem Witch Trials) as well as the debut of “Destination Fear” which visits some of America’s most haunted abandoned buildings. “Ghostober” ends, fittingly, on Halloween night with a special “Ghost Adventures” that visits the infamous Farmville House a.k.a. the inspiration for James Wan’s “The Conjuring.”
“Halloween is Travel Channel’s Super Bowl,” Matthew Butler, general manager, Travel Channel, said. “We’re pulling out all the stops for ‘Ghostober’ this year – from a live ghost hunt in Salem, Massachusetts, and an iconic investigation of the house that inspired ‘The Conjuring,’ to reopening the case files of America’s first ghost hunter, Hans Holzer. And we have the biggest...
This year’s month-long event features a four-hour live ghost investigation in Salem, Massachusetts (home of the Salem Witch Trials) as well as the debut of “Destination Fear” which visits some of America’s most haunted abandoned buildings. “Ghostober” ends, fittingly, on Halloween night with a special “Ghost Adventures” that visits the infamous Farmville House a.k.a. the inspiration for James Wan’s “The Conjuring.”
“Halloween is Travel Channel’s Super Bowl,” Matthew Butler, general manager, Travel Channel, said. “We’re pulling out all the stops for ‘Ghostober’ this year – from a live ghost hunt in Salem, Massachusetts, and an iconic investigation of the house that inspired ‘The Conjuring,’ to reopening the case files of America’s first ghost hunter, Hans Holzer. And we have the biggest...
- 8/20/2019
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Tony Sokol Jul 25, 2019
Travel Channel's Ghostober looks back at old haunts as The Holzer Files follows pioneering ghost hunter who inspired Amityville Horror.
Halloween falls every week in Ghostober, Travel Channel's month-long celebration of all things spooky. Shane Pittman, Dave Schrader and clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient intuitive Cindy Kaza will resurrect the cases of America’s first ghost hunter on the new series The Holzer Files.
Holzer is recognized as the “father of the paranormal.” His works inspired Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis to write Ghostbusters. Born in Vienna in 1920, Dr. Hans Holzer is one of the most famous parapsychologists in this dimension. The author of 138 books, mostly on the occult, he is best known for inspiring The Amityville Horror.
In January 1977, he and Ethel Meyers, a medium, investigated the the Long Island property reputedly haunted by previous owner Ronald Defeo Jr., who murdered his family at the home...
Travel Channel's Ghostober looks back at old haunts as The Holzer Files follows pioneering ghost hunter who inspired Amityville Horror.
Halloween falls every week in Ghostober, Travel Channel's month-long celebration of all things spooky. Shane Pittman, Dave Schrader and clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient intuitive Cindy Kaza will resurrect the cases of America’s first ghost hunter on the new series The Holzer Files.
Holzer is recognized as the “father of the paranormal.” His works inspired Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis to write Ghostbusters. Born in Vienna in 1920, Dr. Hans Holzer is one of the most famous parapsychologists in this dimension. The author of 138 books, mostly on the occult, he is best known for inspiring The Amityville Horror.
In January 1977, he and Ethel Meyers, a medium, investigated the the Long Island property reputedly haunted by previous owner Ronald Defeo Jr., who murdered his family at the home...
- 7/25/2019
- Den of Geek
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